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WIN Survey

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Every 1-2 years, we survey our members on all aspects of our Centre's life. Our goal is to solicit constructive criticism in guiding us to make OxCIN better for all its members. We are interested in the views of all members – including students, core staff and researchers – new and old!

You can view a summary of the results of previous surveys here [SSO Required]. These results and the text below refer to WIN (Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging), which was the name of the Centre between 2017 - 2025. 

Actions taken based on 2023 Survey

  1. We are scheduling a minimum of one OxCIN United session per term at each of our three sites (OHBA, FMRIB, LaMB) for the 2025/26 year.
  2. We send out a Centre-wide email to request suggestions for seminar speakers for the new year at the end of each academic year. We have added a weekly reminder of where to find recordings of previous sessions to the Monday Message. 
  3. We regularly highlight a specific page of the OxCIN website in the Monday Message.
  4. We have developed a new social media strategy in collaboration with our departmental comms officers, and now regularly post about new outputs, events and achievements on X, Bluesky and LinkedIn.
  5. Our Centre and leadership is actively involved in the wider University's efforts to improve recognition and career development opportunities for non-academic staff. We aim to include our core staff at all levels of operation within OxCIN, e.g. through membership of our Associate Directors' Advisory Groups and other committees. Alongside our Centre-wide development activities, we invest in away days and regular training sessions specifically aimed at core staff.
  6. We consciously aim to promote the breadth of OxCIN’s research in OxCIN United sessions and our social media strategy.
  7. We are continuing to work on being less cliquey, by monitoring and steering how social and cross-Centre events are organised and promoted. We have created a dedicated 'Centre Community' page on the website, as well as a Slack channel, which facilitates and promotes grass-roots Centre-wide interest groups. link
  8. We have started sending out 'end of project' surveys to scanner users to gather constructive feedback on our facilities and processes. We are continuing to add FAQ items to our website and use our communication channels to highlight ways in which our core staff can help users. 
  9. We have launched the EDI Ambassador Scheme to foster a more inclusive research environment at the Centre and give our members opportunities to develop skills and implement new initiatives in the EDI domain.
  10. We have revised our Engagement Ambassadors Scheme to include more policy and patient engagement training in addition to public engagement. We have expanded our webpage on policy engagement training opportunities and resources, and added a case study interview with one of our researchers.
  11. We have revitalised our Open Science community channels, and have taken actions to increase awareness of the infrastructure. For example, we now include a weekly Open Science message highlighting a resource or training opportunity in the Monday Message. The Ambassadors have also started organising termly drop-in sessions that alternate between OxCIN sites (advertised on the What's On page and in the Monday Message).

Actions taken based on 2021 Survey

  1. Your feedback suggested that the WIN intranet was not as well used as we would hope, and could be organised better. We have now restructured the WIN website and merged the intranet pages with the main website, so that all content is in one place. The search function has been greatly improved. 
  2. We have put out regular (every 2 months) calls for WIN seminar speakers and topics for WIN Weds content. Seminar speakers have been suggested by WIN members.
  3. Many of you indicated a desire to restart in-person events after the pandemic, both research-related and social. We are now providing food at WIN seminars with invited speakers to promote attendance in person, and we have organised various smaller and larger social events such as pride month, the 2023 World Cup and the 25th Anniversary of FMRIB.
  4. In response to your suggestions we have added public engagement content to the 2022-23 WIN graduate programme, and we plan to continue this in the next editions. 
  5. You asked for more information about policy engagement opportunities, training courses, and examples of successful engagement. We are making sure that we regularly circulate opportunities in Monday Messages, and we have included case studies on the WIN website. A PI day focused on showcasing policy engagement projects was held in 2023.
  6. We have created plans for optimal usage of existing core facilities. The needs of different users are regularly reviewed, and procedures are in place to maximise the usage including increasing the number of trained scanner operators. 
  7. We are reviewing the scope of core facility provision at WIN. Discussions have been ongoing at the WIN management board, including proposals to seek funding for new technologies. Core support for MEG and EEG has been increased and is more integrated with the other WIN scanning facilities.
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